3 Health Services Stocks Nudging The Industry Higher

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All three major indices are trading up today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI) trading up 14 points (0.1%) at 16,515 as of Thursday, April 24, 2014, 12:55 PM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,645 issues advancing vs. 1,332 declining with 182 unchanged.

TheStreet would like to highlight 3 stocks pushing the industry higher today:

3. WellPoint ( WLP) is one of the companies pushing the Health Services industry higher today. As of noon trading, WellPoint is up $2.22 (2.3%) to $96.91 on light volume. Thus far, 1.1 million shares of WellPoint exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 3.2 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $95.57-$97.17 after having opened the day at $95.57 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $94.69.

WellPoint, Inc., a health benefits company, through its subsidiaries, provides a range of medical products in the United States. The company offers a spectrum of network-based managed care health benefit plans to large and small employer, individual, Medicaid, and senior markets. WellPoint has a market cap of $26.5 billion and is part of the health care sector. Shares are up 2.5% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 7 analysts who rate WellPoint a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 10 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates WellPoint as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, reasonable valuation levels and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income. Get the full WellPoint Ratings Report now.